Samsung is shutting down its custom CPU core department, will use standard ARM cores

04 November 2019
The Exynos 9830 will likely be the first chipset to ditch the Mongoose custom cores.

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And the death of Samsung's Cell Phone division begins. In 5 years they will only be making the OLED screens.

    Argh, one less mobile competitor
    Hope AMD starts developing mobile chipsets

      Samsung's SoCs are trash anyway.
      Qualcomm's SoCs get trashed by A13 ...

      As an Android user, this is a sad state.

        Fortunately, not as bad as one would imagine. Samsung probably realised that their Mongoose team was fooling their sales and marketing department with figures. The setup of the Exynos had some serious discrepancies with regard to what is on paper and what actually exists. The development team was seriously fudging numbers.

        Anyways, now that Samsung is working directly with ARM on its ARM processors, it can get better overclocking and better performance just by tweaking the arrangement of ARM processors, and using DynamIQ for better performance simply by tweaking instructions. Samsung Exynos SoCs can still beat Snapdragon processors, and the chances of purely ARM processors makes the chances higher.

          Despite arguments in this section. None of them can beat the A13 Bionic

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            • 04 Nov 2019

            Adul Al Salami Kebab, 04 Nov 2019Actaulyl most phones comes with two or four A73 or A75 core... moreYes, cores. But cores in a CPU and CPU itself are entirely different things.

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              Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019Qualcomm doesn't care about performance, we are f@$!edWew. Performance numbers on paper matters. Benchmarkers, people who checks out benchmarks casually, and people who want to feel good by berating everyone below them wants the most powerful phone of the year. They'd rather let Antutu and Geekbench be the judge on what phone are they gonna buy. Apple is a powerhouse on that so we (Android) may lose these demographics for sure.

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                • 04 Nov 2019

                lacp, 04 Nov 2019Trolling in this site? Why are rubbish, the Exynos processo... moreNow there are rumors that the AMD GPU project got shutdown too. Seems that Samsung is giving up like Nuclun project from LG.

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                  • 04 Nov 2019

                  Love the Community, 04 Nov 2019Dang. The Mongoose cores are just this close to beat Apple ... moreQualcomm doesn't care about performance, we are f@$!ed

                    AnonD-558092, 04 Nov 2019Your comment proves you have no idea what you're talking ab... more"Also all Kirin SoCs were always beaten by Exynos and Snapdragon SoCs"
                    You're right about SD but as for the Exynos, the correct expression would be "Exynos USED TO beat Kirin". Exynos 9820 was worse than Kirin 980 in almost all CPU benchmarks and Exynos 9825 is overall inferior to Kirin 990 even though they are built on the same 7nm EUV lithography process.

                      Dealler, 04 Nov 2019You can´t compare chipsets on different platforms, noob.As if I'm the one who started this whole discussion lol. And that's the flawed argument which has been proven incorrect long time ago.
                      https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro-and-max-review/4

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                        • 04 Nov 2019

                        Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019Exynos is bad, Kirin is better. This news proves itYour comment proves you have no idea what you're talking about. Also all Kirin SoCs were always beaten by Exynos and Snapdragon SoCs.
                        , further proving your lack of understanding of the topic you attempted to talk about but failed to do so properly.

                        Also it proves you are unable to understand the news properly. Exynos isn't shutting down. It's the Mongoose department that is shutting down.

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                          .alpha, 04 Nov 2019Kirin and Mediatek are way superior design anyway with 5G m... moreAnd one or 2 koreans. All have the right to compete, ones with others. The Korean technology is not inferior to the American or even Chinese technology. Koreans are on the top of all technologies. And also the Japanese, why not, they also have the last technologies in everything.

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                            Jaeger, 04 Nov 2019In fact, the only time Samsung made a significantly better ... moreThe E8890 was better than the SD820 though.

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                              .alpha, 04 Nov 2019Kirin and Mediatek are way superior design anyway with 5G m... moreYou obviously missed the Exynos 980...

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                                • 04 Nov 2019

                                Kirin and Mediatek are way superior design anyway with 5G modem integrated within the SoC. The phone sphere will just be 2 American and 2 Chinese firms

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                                  exynos should die long time ago..

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                                    SadSoul, 04 Nov 2019Exynos should die for the sake of SoC. Then Mediatek, Kirin should die also to the sake of the Soc. They are so useful and needed like Exynos. All have the right to compete, be americans, koreans, chinese, taiwanese, everyone!

                                      SadSoul, 04 Nov 2019Exynos should die for the sake of SoC. Exynos chipsets need improvements, not hate.

                                        Anonymous, 04 Nov 2019The consumers are buying in droves mediatek exynos and Kiri... moreI prefer reliability rather than plurality. Products have to be reliable in order to people to buy them and use them without issues.

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